Last year I read the wonderful book Kololo Hill, about an Asian family expelled from Uganda following the coup in 1972. This reads almost like it's polar opposite - told mainly from the POV of a young man, Sameer rather than a woman, as his life and family is pulled apart by their past in Uganda. Both are love stories at heart, but there is a level of harshness in this I found more difficult, including how dislikeable some of the other characters were but seeing their journey through Sameer's eyes was interesting.

I swithered on a rating but probably 3.5 rounded up.